# Any newer bands making the kind of music bands like Motely Crue, Cinderella, etc today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179 "2017-07-13T17:13:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/1 "2017-07-13T17:13:08Z")
I know a lot of the so-called ’ hair-metal’ bands are still around–Stephen Pearcy, Tom Keifer, and lots of others are still performing. But have their been any newer bands playing that kind of music? I see lots of new bands playing the harder kind of metal, along the lines of Slayer, etc., but I was curious if the ‘lighter’ kind of metal still exists? The kind of stuff you saw on the first hour or so of the MTV headbanger’s ball once upon a time. Searching for metal bands often just gets me the latter kind, but just looking at rock bands gets me a lot of way mellower stuff. Is this kind of music dead or just hiding somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/2 "2017-07-13T17:30:34Z")
If you mean AOR, there are certainly new ones around. In fact some old, some new would be here, along with the older bands touring: [https://www.hrhaor.com/line-up.html](https://www.hrhaor.com/line-up.html) That’s next years festival, but newish ones I remember from this years were Romeo’s Daughter, The Radio Sun and Bonafide (it’s like a band who loved Bon Scotts AC/DC so much they wrote their own songs) > **[HRH AOR 2017](https://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/hardrockhell/2017aor)** > > HRH AOR 2017, Fri 10th to Mon 13th March 2017 - Haven Hafan y Mor Holiday Park Pwllheli Gwynedd - information, lineup, line-up, news, rumours, reviews, photos Others of this ilk seen recent are Inglorious, Stonebroken, and Toseland. Interestingly, from the period, they also do a progressive rock festival, so while not hair metal AOR there would be overlap from that sort of time, so new bands are still doing prog… Some survived over the years because Germany and Holland love a bit of Prog, which is why the likes of Pendragon still survive: > **[HRH Prog 5 2017](https://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/hardrockhell/2017prog/)** > > HRH Prog 5 2017, Thu 16th to Sun 19th March 2017 - Camp HRH Pwllheli Gwynedd - information, lineup, line-up, news, rumours, reviews, photos ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/3 "2017-07-13T17:31:07Z")
Steel Panther is somewhat satirical in their “glam rock” personas but are current and put out original material. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/4 "2017-07-13T17:35:47Z")
How about Avenged Sevenfold, Five Finger Death Punch, Chevelle? Otherwise most new bands playing hair metal are just bands made up of members of old hair metal bands. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/5 "2017-07-13T18:31:03Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > If you mean AOR, there are certainly new ones around. In fact some old, some new would be here, along with the older bands touring: > > [https://www.hrhaor.com/line-up.html](https://www.hrhaor.com/line-up.html) > > That’s next years festival, but newish ones I remember from this years were Romeo’s Daughter, The Radio Sun and Bonafide (it’s like a band who loved Bon Scotts AC/DC so much they wrote their own songs) > > [HRH AOR 2017 - eFestivals](http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/hardrockhell/2017aor) > > Others of this ilk seen recent are Inglorious, Stonebroken, and Toseland. > > Interestingly, from the period, they also do a progressive rock festival, so while not hair metal AOR there would be overlap from that sort of time, so new bands are still doing prog… Some survived over the years because Germany and Holland love a bit of Prog, which is why the likes of Pendragon still survive: > > [HRH Prog 5 2017 - eFestivals](http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/hardrockhell/2017prog/) What’s AOR? I’m not familiar with that acronym ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/6 "2017-07-13T18:44:14Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > How about Avenged Sevenfold, Five Finger Death Punch, Chevelle? > > Otherwise most new bands playing hair metal are just bands made up of members of old hair metal bands. Not really the same kind of music, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/7 "2017-07-13T18:48:58Z")
> [@batsto](#): > > What’s AOR? I’m not familiar with that acronym Album-Oriented Rock. In most cases, what was once AOR may be better known today as a “Classic Rock” or “Active Rock” format. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/8 "2017-07-13T18:56:59Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > If you mean AOR, there are certainly new ones around. In fact some old, some new would be here, along with the older bands touring: > > [https://www.hrhaor.com/line-up.html](https://www.hrhaor.com/line-up.html) > > That’s next years festival, but newish ones I remember from this years were Romeo’s Daughter, The Radio Sun and Bonafide (it’s like a band who loved Bon Scotts AC/DC so much they wrote their own songs) > > [HRH AOR 2017 - eFestivals](http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/hardrockhell/2017aor) > > Others of this ilk seen recent are Inglorious, Stonebroken, and Toseland. > > Interestingly, from the period, they also do a progressive rock festival, so while not hair metal AOR there would be overlap from that sort of time, so new bands are still doing prog… Some survived over the years because Germany and Holland love a bit of Prog, which is why the likes of Pendragon still survive: > > [HRH Prog 5 2017 - eFestivals](http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/hardrockhell/2017prog/) Just checked out some Romeo’s Daughter…this is exactly the kind of music I was talking about, although it seems they’ve actually been making music since the 80s, so they’re not really new. But they’re new to me. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/9 "2017-07-13T19:46:50Z")
I haven’t listened to anything of theirs since early/mid-2000, but The Darkness are apparently still around and doing that 80s hair/glam metal sort of thing (they formed in 2000.) [“I Believe in a Thing Called Love”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjZuykKY1I) was the big hit from when they formed. Although I just looked up their last album (2015), and [“Last of Our Kind”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hi_kzzSXhY) is a pretty cool tune. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/10 "2017-07-13T19:50:34Z")
Hmm…I"m going down the Youtube rabbit hole and am actually enjoying their 2015 album. Also try [“The Barbaian”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR35pRz7JQ8) by The Darkness. I guess they have a new album coming out this year. This is some pretty fun stuff. I never really delved into them beyond “I Believe in a Thing Called Love,” but I’m enjoying what I’m hearing. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/11 "2017-07-13T19:58:43Z")
Thanks…listening to it right now on Spotify, and I agreed…until that ‘chorus’ on ‘Barbarians’…sounds like something the gang on It’s Always Sunny would do. Rest of the song I’m liking though. ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/12 "2017-07-13T20:00:01Z")
There was a big revival of that kind of music in Sweden and Finland in the '00s with bands like: [Reckless Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6NpF2V2xg), [WigWam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93QOLOkb7lk), [Crazy Lixx](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LCfCi_mgpo), and [Hardcore Superstar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRJtSNUDL14). Some non-Scandanavian bands that also have that kind of sound in the 21st century: [Airbourne](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkMZ6fV3T_0) (Australia, sound like AC/DC), [Biters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o_-N9ANN3o) and [The Last Vegas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIMwhFhyIg) (both USA), [Black Diamonds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM5gTTlXMKI) (Switzerland), and [The Struts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GuUbziASwE) (UK, they sound most like Queen but if The Darkness qualify for this discussion then this band should too) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/13 "2017-07-13T20:01:43Z")
White Wizzard is always good for a laugh. Try this one, “Over The Top”. It’s got a wizard, a GTO Judge, liquor, chicks and hair. It’s awesome! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfnIBnz2_zw) ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/14 "2017-07-13T21:01:28Z")
[The Darkness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjZuykKY1I) Also this [one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHDF2_qe_0k) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/15 "2017-07-13T21:33:59Z")
> [@batsto](#): > > Thanks…listening to it right now on Spotify, and I agreed…until that ‘chorus’ on ‘Barbarians’…sounds like something the gang on It’s Always Sunny would do. Rest of the song I’m liking though. Hah! I see what you’re saying. “The Nightman/Dayman” stuff. I originally thought this band was more tongue-in-cheek with regards to the genre, but I think now, listening through some more stuff, that there’s genuine love there and it’s not meant as a simple parody, but more a genuine pastiche. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/16 "2017-07-13T22:24:00Z")
AOR makes me think of Journey, REO Speedwagon, Boston type stuff with shorter and/or not poofy hair and less of the [Party! Girls! Party Girls!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78bln8pf7-A) type music. Opposite direction lyrically, but Power Metal is sort of the neo-prog. Similarly nerdy fanbase. The Nightman Cometh is also nerdy. > [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > How about Avenged Sevenfold, Five Finger Death Punch, Chevelle? > > Otherwise most new bands playing hair metal are just bands made up of members of old hair metal bands. Chevelle is just pretty much an alternative rock band, unless they’ve changed drastically since I’ve last listened. Whereas the other 2 might be closer to what the OP is looking at. Along with things like Buckcherry, sort of neo-cock rock. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/17 "2017-07-13T22:41:25Z")
**Airbourne** , out of Australia: [Airbourne - It's All For Rock N' Roll (Official Video) - YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0q9a5QS6WQ) video features Lemmy **Jet** , who’ve broken up but Cold Hard Bitch is a rockin song: [Jet - Cold Hard Bitch - YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jZjziFmy-o0) **Supagroup** : [Supagroup Bastard - YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPxuQG-QXU) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/18 "2017-07-13T22:43:06Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > **Jet** , who’ve broken up but Cold Hard Bitch is a rockin song: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jZjziFmy-o0](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jZjziFmy-o0) This was the first song I thought of. They sound like a modern version of AC/DC to me. Especially the guitar. That’s a great rocking tune too. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/19 "2017-07-13T22:44:32Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > AOR makes me think of Journey, REO Speedwagon, Boston type stuff with shorter and/or not poofy hair and less of the [Party! Girls! Party Girls!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78bln8pf7-A) type music. > > Opposite direction lyrically, but Power Metal is sort of the neo-prog. Similarly nerdy fanbase. The Nightman Cometh is also nerdy. > > Chevelle is just pretty much an alternative rock band, unless they’ve changed drastically since I’ve last listened. Whereas the other 2 might be closer to what the OP is looking at. Along with things like Buckcherry, sort of neo-cock rock. I don’t think of Five Finger or Avenged Sevenfold in those terms. They are of a differenbt ilk, as is Chevelle, a band I quite like, along with bands like Incubus. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179/20 "2017-07-13T23:26:18Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Chevelle is just pretty much an alternative rock band, unless they’ve changed drastically since I’ve last listened. Whereas the other 2 might be closer to what the OP is looking at. Along with things like Buckcherry, sort of neo-cock rock. Yeah, just trying to think of bands that aren’t really death metal, but still rock. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-newer-bands-making-the-kind-of-music-bands-like-motely-crue-cinderella-etc-today/791179.md?page=2)